Jonathan Boff describes some of the stages in the life of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869 - 1955), the subject of his book Haig’s Enemy. During the First World War, Crown Prince Rupprecht commanded more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, where he faced the British Expeditionary Force along the Western Front. Following the war and the abolishment of the monarchy he returned to Bavaria where he lived privately exercising some political influence still in right-wing politics. Following Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, Rupprecht was blamed for Hitler’s failed putsch in 1923 and advised to leave Germany.
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Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War and his previous book, Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 was short-listed for the Templer Medal and for the British Army Book of the Year award. He serves on the councils of the National Army Museum and Army Records Society, has worked as a historical consultant with the British Army and the BBC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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